Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indiana: Running for the seat of retiring William Jenner, Republican Governor Harold Handley, 48, onetime coal shoveler (at 25? an hour) and former (1953-56) lieutenant governor, is in the hot seat. Issues: unemployment (mostly around South Bend), high taxes (raised in 1957), highway scandals (during the administration of Handley's predecessor, George Craig), right-to-work (last fortnight Handley went all out for right-to-work). Handley is throwing the book at his opponent, Evansville Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39, accusing him of running a corrupt administration in his home town and of being a tool...
...Democratic opponent, Baltimore's eleven-year Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, 55, has weathered scandal and long odds to win every one of his 23 campaigns in 32 years of professional politics, has strong city strength and is hanging on the coattails of popular Democratic candidate for Governor Millard Tawes to pull up his back-country margins. Only ticket-splitters can save Beall...
...other Republican incumbent: Banker John Hoblitzell, 45, 1956 campaign manager for popular young (35) Republican Governor Cecil Underwood, who was appointed by Underwood to the seat left vacant early this year by the death of Democrat Matt Neely. Hoblitzell is energetic and friendly, but he is also blunt and only a so-so campaigner, admits that he has not cracked the barrier laid out by his Democratic opponent, Glad-Hander Jennings Randolph. At 56, Randolph has served seven terms in Congress, is now a public-relations man for Capital Airlines, rates as one of the state's most effective...
...voters, two CRC agents went to the board's office in Tuskegee, asked to look at registration records. The board's Chairman Emmett P. Livingston telephoned Alabama's Attorney General John Patterson in Montgomery. Registration records are not public documents, ruled Patterson, who will be elected Governor in November. On Patterson's advice to "show them nothing," Livingston flatly refused to open his books...
...victory was all the more impressive because the U.D.N. and Juracy were political also-rans for years. Once Vargas' governor of the important state of Bahia, Juracy broke with the dictator in 1937, helped found the U.D.N. to fight the dictatorship. But in its first campaign, U.D.N.'s candidate was quoted-or misquoted-as saying: "I don't need votes from lunch-pailers." Ever after, U.D.N. was considered a silk-hat, antilabor party...